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. @with tst5 @anni @ffice ISRAEL L. LANDIS, LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA. Lietters Patent lVo. 64,335, tZateiAprz'l 1867 IMPROVEMENT 'IN PORTABLE FENGES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY'CONCERN:

Be it known that I, ISRAEL L. LANDIS, of Lancaster city, county of Lancaster, and State of Pennsylvania` have invented a. new and improved Portable Fence, and I do hereby declare the following to Abe an exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and lo the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

, The nature 4of my invention consists in the construction of a notch brace, (with p1ns,) fitting into notches in the posts to suit either a. lrail or pale fence,'in combination with the inode of fastening the rails by pins, so that the fence can be easily taken apartl for transportation or laying aside.

Figure l represents a. view of the fence :is connected at the ends of the panels, either :t mil or pale fence.

Figure Z2 shows the shape and construction of the notched brace and pins.

Figure 3 shows the notches in the posts in which the braces t and bind the posts.

A represents the rails or panels; B, the pins that connect them; C, the posts; D, the notches in the posts; E, the notched-brace or clamp, with the square notch F in the side, at the centre, withapertures at the ends through which pins G are passed to lock against the outside of the rails. The pins G arey longs, and nitide the Wholelength of a. pale when a pale fence is to he connected by the braces E.

l What' claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The construction of the notched brace E, with its pins G, or rod Gfwhcn combined and userlxwith a. rail or pale fence, fastened together with pins B, as herein described and for the purposes set forth. I;

ISRAEL L, LANDIs Witn esses I. FRANKLIN REIGART, JOHN S. HOLLINGSHEAD. 

